disabilities

Pope Francis said that with the throwaway culture, there is "a less visible but extremely insidious factor that erodes the value of the disabled in the eyes of society and their own eyes."

World Autism Awareness Day: April 2, 2022
World Autism Awareness Day promotes, protects, and ensures the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and respects their inherent dignity.

World Down Syndrome Day: March 21
Actively promoting the inclusion of persons with Down syndrome and disabilities also paves a way for everyone’s inclusion in society for common good.

In a meeting with disabled children and their caregivers at the Vatican, Pope Francis said that if disability or illness makes life more difficult, it is no less worthy of being lived, and lived to the fullest.

Promoted by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the #IamChurch initiative consists in 5 videos demonstrating the daily struggles of persons with disabilities who, far from feeling burdensome or "set aside", provide their own specific contribution within their ecclesial communities. "I feel like part of the Church" is the title of the second video.